 The hideous comedy of the marriage-market has been a stock topic with novelists from Thackeray downwards ; but Mr. Moore goes deep into the yet more hideous tragedy which forms its afterpiece, the tragedy of enforced stagnant celibacy, with its double  A Mummer's Wifeby George Moore - 1893 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Dekker - Economics - 1887 - 642 pages
...stands on a very much higher plane than the facile fiction of the circulating Lbmrits. The hiaeous comedy of the marriage-market has been a stock topic...novelists from Thackeray downwards ; but Mr. Moore goesdcep into the yet more hideous tragedy whirh forms its ¡ifterpiece, the tragedy of enfoiced stagnant... | |
 | Pierre Loti - 1887 - 282 pages
...ciremmlittng libraries. The hideous comedy of the marriage-market has been a stock topic wit tivelists from Thackeray downwards; but Mr. Moore goes deep into the yet more hideous trsgec which forms its afterpiece, the tragedy of enforced stagnant celibacy, with its double catastropl... | |
 | John Webster - 1888 - 584 pages
...Moore's work stands on a very much higher plane than the facile fiction of the circulating libraries. The hideous comedy of the marriage-market has been...tragedy of enforced stagnant celibacy, with its double catastrophe oí disease and vice."—Pall Mai 1 . Gazette. Eleventh Edition, carefully Revised, and... | |
 | George Moore - English literature - 1888 - 386 pages
...written."—Society. Seventh Edition. A DRAMA IN MUSLIN. ownwars; ur oore goes eep no e ye more eous tragedy which forms its afterpiece, the tragedy of enforced stagnant celibacy, with its double catastrophe of disease and vice. 1 '—Pall Mall Gazette. VlZETELLYS ONE-VOLUME NOVELS. XXIX. SPRING... | |
 | HAVELOCK ELLIS - 1888 - 508 pages
...Moore's work stands on a very much higher plane than the facile fiction of th« circulating hbraries. The hideous comedy of the marriage-market has been a stock topic with novelists from Th:ickeray downwards ; but Mr. Moore goes deep into the yet more hideous tragedy which forms its afterpiece,... | |
 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 1888 - 352 pages
...Frontispiece, 3s. 6d. A DRAMA IN MUSLIN. "The hideous comedy of the marriage market has been a stock topic wi novelists from Thackeray downwards ; but Mr. Moore goes deep into the yet mo hideous tragedy which forms its afterpiece."—Pall Mall Gazette. Eleventh and Cheaper Edition,... | |
 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 1888 - 352 pages
...Frontispiece, 3s. 6d. A DRAMA IN MUSLIN. "The hideous comedy of the marriage market has been a stock topic wi novelists from Thackeray downwards ; but Mr. Moore goes deep into the yet mo hideous tragedy which forms its afterpiece."—Pall Mall Gazette. Eleventh and Cheaper Edition,... | |
 | Fanny Burney - Authors, English - 1890 - 482 pages
...of the affair."—Times. Seventh Edition, price 3s. 6d. A DRAMA IN MUSLIN. " The hideous comedy uf the marriage-market has been a stock topic with novelists from Thackeray downwards ; but Mr. Moore goesdeep into the yet more hideous tragedy whichformsits afterpiece, the tragedy of enforced stagnant... | |
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